Derek Bailey - Guitar, Drums ‘n’ Bass (hear “Concrete”)
Evidence that drum ‘n’ bass overwhelms whatever it encounters. Not one of Derek Bailey’s greatest albums, but it is one of his more interesting. It’s an invaluable piece of sound, for introducing people who might shrink from Bailey’s classics, for listening to when you can’t decide whether to listen to regular sounding techno beats or distorted free jazz guitar, or just as the unique thing that it is. In a way, Derek Bailey is doing something really cool, as the old free jazz head jamming on top of the new thing - but really, isn’t it surprising that there isn’t a similar disc from every jazz musician?
Supposedly this album sprang from Bailey’s habit of jamming along with the local drum and bass or techno or electronic music station (by the way, are people really happy calling these types of music “electronic dance music”? Don’t they yearn for a handy term like “rock” or “classical”?). I think that a simple recording of that would convince better - in a way, this album is like some ethnomusicologist writing down the elements of some faraway music and recreating it in the lab.
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Derek Bailey - Guitar, Drums ‘n’ Bass
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